Fall2010-ISTC301 - Universal Design for Learning

CHAPTER FIVE: Cassy Crisostomo, Amy Kirchmer and Zack Skellchock

Refers specifically to how a task is accomplished. The goal has already been set, and the process by which the learner achieves the goal is utilizing their strategic network.
The teacher or instructor must remember to make the goal broad enough, so that the learner may use a variety of media and other tools to reach their goal!
Teachers provide flexible models of skilled performance.
Teachers provide opportunities to practice with supports.
Teachers provide multiple media and formats.
Teachers offer flexible opportunities for demonstrating skills.

Examples of how strategic networking is related to achieving a goal:

The recognition network of the brain is designed to help us to find and understand concepts, information, and ideas.
This network is specialized to figure out and assign a definition to patterns we see, hear, taste, touch and smell.
Recognitions Goals: These are standards that ask the student to identify “Who, what, where, and when” to help the learning of a specific substance.
In the classroom, recognition goals are used to find content and show knowledge of what the concepts mean.
Teachers have used the eTrekker (an online website to help students search and create a project) as a way for students to keep their goals right in front of their eyes. To support the recognition network: students can have a text or image-based password, they can select one of two different formats for displaying search results, and they can also select a text or speech presentation.